By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s appeal for more information on Americans joining ISIS has led to strong leads, ABC News reports. “The FBI tips website that was announced yesterday has received a substantial number of web visits, some of which have generated leads,” another FBI official said Thursday. “We continue to call on the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Does ISIS have the resources to strike the U.S.? FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that the terrorist organization has shown no “capacity or resources” to pull off such an attack, the Courier-Journal reports. Comey dismissed suggestions that the Obama administration missed the emergence of ISIS. “From the FBI’s perspective, I…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is denying claims by a Republican Congressman that at least 10 ISIS fighters were caught trying to cross the Mexican border in Texas, the Daily Mail reports. Rep. Duncan Hunter said Tuesday that the Border Patrol told him that the extremists were captured at the border. Homeland Security…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A California Congressman is claiming ISIS fighters trying to get into the U.S. were busted at the Texas border with Mexico, Fox News reports. “ISIS is coming across the southern border,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, whose district includes much of San Diego. “They aren’t flying B-1 Bombers bombing American cities,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a 19-year-old man at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport as he was trying to leave the country to join Islamic State, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mohammed Hamzah Khan was boarding a plane to Vienna, where he was going to catch a flight to Istansbul, according to the FBI…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey said he knows the identities of roughly a dozen Americans fighting alongside terrorists in Syria, Bloomberg reports. Comey said the bureau is prepared to track the U.S. citizens if they return. “Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport’s revoked, is entitled to come back,” Comey said in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Claims by Iraq’s prime minister that ISIS militants have been planning to attack U.S. subways prompted officials in New York to increase surveillance and bag inspections at subways, the Associated Press reports. But Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphasized that the threats are not verified. To show they…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The masked executioner shown on video beheading two American journalists and a British aid worker has been identified by the FBI, the New York Daily News reports. “I believe we have identified him,” Director James Comey said Thursday. The FBI didn’t disclose the name of the militant, who has a British…
